Regional Foods (store, gas, best)

[gemkeeper]

We have two of their rockers on our back patio. What a great place to have a cool drink and read a book in the summer! You can sit in those rockers for hours and not want to move!

Ours are out in the weather all summer just under our deep eaves. They don't have a mark on them, the wood is fine and they look like new!

[Kitties of Domination]

Anyone interested in the chocolate gravy recipe from mom? Notice: Freshly made biscuits only!! No canned shortcuts!!

[Beretta]

Originally Posted by Kitties of Domination

Anyone interested in the chocolate gravy recipe from mom? Notice: Freshly made biscuits only!! No canned shortcuts!!

You have to ask?

[Pam& Bill]

Yes, I'd be interested in the chocolate gravy recipe from Mom.
Pam

[gemkeeper]

I think that there will be about 20 of them flying your way, Pam!!

I can't wait to see the recipe myself. Just the word "chocolate" makes my pans start jumping up and down!!

[McMar]

Originally Posted by SmokyMtnGal

If you like butter you have to check out Thepioneerwomancooks website. It is a great food place.

Wow SMG, that food looks good! The chick that writes the website is colorful - sounds like she'd be a fun girl to drink a beer with.

Kitties, I cannot for the life of me make a homemade biscuit, but the Mary B's frozen ones are pretty good. Can I still have the chocolate gravy recipe?

I actually do not eat a lot of butter, but I do LOVE the stuff. I also only drink skim, fat free milk because it gets so much colder. But I really need to keep some 2% or whole milk on hand for cooking. So anyway, I was low on butter and had no sour cream when I made mashed potatoes a couple of days ago, so I improvised with what I had on hand. The potatoes were surprisingly good, though one of these days I'm going to use real cream and like a pound of better and just forget the waistline! I used 4 pounds red potatoes (skin on due to laziness, though I tell myself it's for the vitamins), 3 tablespoons butter, skim milk, a couple of tablespoons of plain fat-free yogurt, a couple of tablespoons of parmesan, a chopped clove of garlic, and salt & pepper.

[McMar]

Oh my gosh, SmokyMtnGal, I've been reading a shrimp recipe from Thepioneerwomancooks.com, and she has me rolling. Here's a quote:

"I wound up using two sticks of butter. I’m not comfortable unless I use two sticks of butter in all my recipes. I begin twitching violently and slamming my forehead against my cutting board."

I love this website, but my computer does not. There are so many pictures that my computer gives me the spinny wheel (the computer's version of flipping the bird) quite often.

[Beretta]

Glad you like it! Be sure to visit her sister site as well. She also is getting ready to launch a photography blog, which I am super excited about! Both of her blogs just won awards. Our personalities are very similar and she has a wonderful way of expressing herself online. I love photography and I love to cook and she and I both like our husbands in Wranglers. I really enjoy her sites. I have made quite a few of her recipes. One of my favorites is the Texas Sheet Cake (I think she calls it chocolate cake). I had a very similar recipe to the one she posted but I enjoy the step by step pictures. Butter is good. Bacon grease is good but she doesn't mention that too much. Butter is still good.

[gemkeeper]

Her recipes do look great and what a hoot just reading it! Thanks, SMG. I'm afraid DH is going to expect more from me than I can deliver. We are both getting a kick out of reading this website.

McMar, I hope you are sharing with your DH!! Have to go buy some more butter.

Pioneer woman? Pie-eyed woman is more like it!!

Pam, I found a website - several in fact - that give a very simple recipe for chocolate gravy!

Southern Chocolate Gravy

I am going to make a batch of biscuits when I get home this afternoon and slop that yummy gravy on about 6 of them!

[McMar]

Gem, thanks for the link. I'll make this chocolate gravy next saturday for breakfast.

A friend of mine said once that she didn't like gravy. My sweetie's jaw dropped, as if that were the strangest thing he'd ever heard. "How could you not like gravy?" He just couldn't fathom it. He said "there's just something not right about a person who doesn't like gravy."

SmokyMtnGal, if we were in the same town, we would be quite the gal pals!